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Visual Designer

Location: Hong Kong-Hong Kong

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We are looking for self-motivated team members who are passionate about interactive media and want to learn new skills, work in multidisciplinary teams, and deliver excellent quality solutions to leading companies in the following sectors: Media, Telecoms, Internet Information Providers, Banking, and others. The work Fjord delivers ranges from mobile services to Web, Interactive TV, and digital interfaces embedded in physical environments.

We expect the successful candidate to have 6-10 years experience of delivering interface design solutions for various clients as well as strong leadership experience. The candidate has loved working in a collaborative team environment before, and has experience of interacting with multinational clients.

Design Leads take a central role in the delivery of projects. Design Leads are directly responsible for the Quality, Creativity and Delivery of the projects they are overseeing, along with revenue generated on these projects, and client and team satisfaction.

Design Lead reports directly to the Design Director and/or Managing Director. Design Lead (DL) oversees and takes responsibility for successful delivery for a range of projects. The primarily type of projects that DL might run are:

Projects are staffed by specialists from Fjord's team of design experts. The best person available for the project will be part of the project team. As such, DL must have the flexibility to work with different people to deliver different projects. Experts can also be from other Fjord offices.

Note that DL do not automatically have to be the project lead on every project that they oversee. Other senior members of the Fjord skills pool can be project leads for projects.

Key tasks and responsibilities

1. Creativity & World-class quality of work

Ability to quickly understand, analyse, and respond to client briefs

Work with the specialists to develop and deliver boundary pushing service concepts

Creativity of output (innovation & beauty)

Completeness and suitability of work (works with client situation)

Lead the creative side of pitch projects and support the business development team with creative input, client meetings, presentations and proposal writings

2. Output creation

Participating at the early stages of project definition and proposition creation on multiple projects.

Animation solutions, transitions and demos created in Flash, 3D or similar software packages

Motion graphics solutions on media projects

Art direction for photo shoots or similar events

Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.

Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers.

3. Client interaction

Project management

Expectations and scope management

Risk assessment and management

Form and maintain client relationships, respond to new business opportunities

4. Team satisfaction

Thought leadership

Clarity of mission and expectations

Resource utilisation management

Motivation and morale

5. Targets

On-time, On-budget delivery of work

Revenue (all three project types): Monthly revenue targets will be set

Utilisation of Fjord people: On average not above 80%, not consistently above 100%

Other responsibilities

Mentor digital designers and help them set and achieve satisfying career goals

Participate in recruiting and hiring digital designers

Promote a culture of innovation and teamwork

Establish and nurture good client working relationships

Participate in new business development activities

Stay up to date with new technologies, industry and design trends and demonstrate a passion for learning

Participate in and foster design thinking among the Global Business Division

Qualifications

2+ years of proven track record of leading digital design teams and delivering in addition of 6+ years in-depth knowledge and experience of design digital services with consumer applications, preferably mobile devices, rich web apps/site, Interactive TV within the media, telecommunications, and broadband industries.

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